(JTA) — An Israeli shooting raid in the West Bank city of Nablus drew gunfire from Palestinian militants and ended with the death of at least 10 Palestinians, reports said. The dead included a 72-year old and a 16-year-old.
The raid comes amid...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a rare comment on internal Israeli politics, the umbrella organization for local Jewish federations is urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to drop one element of his government’s controversial plan for judicial reform.
On...
(JNS) The Knesset passed the first two pieces of legislation related to the government’s judicial reform plan following a noisy six-hour-plus debate that ended after midnight Tuesday.
Both bills passed by a vote of 63 to 47.
The first bill...
Admit it, you watched episode after episode of Emily in Paris on Netflix and found yourself quite fixated by the American marketing exec with the increasingly audacious outfits.
Israeli fine jewelry designer Leehe Segal confesses she also indulged...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 13, 2023
(JTA) — An Israeli parliamentary committee voted to advance parts of the government’s proposed judicial reform on Monday, as tens of thousands of Israelis protested in Jerusalem and opposition lawmakers attempted to disrupt the vote.
But following...
Amit Naor, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published February 12, 2023
This story is published here in partnership with the National Library of Israel.
Imagine a typical workday that went something like this: you wake up, drink your morning coffee, and leaf through the local newspaper. Then you shower, dress and head...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 12, 2023
(JTA) — One of the Israeli teams dispatched to Turkey to assist after the devastating earthquakes there has headed home after being informed about a “concrete and immediate threat” against them.
United Hatzalah told its team of roughly two dozen...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published February 12, 2023
(JTA) — I started reporting on North American Jews and Israel in the last century, and for years covered the debate over whether Jews in the Diaspora had a right to criticize the Israeli government in public. The debate sort of petered out in the early-1990s,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Benny Chukrun, speaking in Hebrew on a wind-whipped day outside the Israeli embassy in the U.S. capital, had a message for his fellow protesters.
“We have a special role in Washington. We have access to the Jewish opinion leaders...
(JNS) When Israeli ophthalmologist Morris Hartstein visited Gondar in 2014 for a family volunteering trip, he did not know he would start an initiative that would help more than 8,000 Ethiopians receive eye care.
Today, he is the founding director...
(JTA) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken quoted from a Jewish prayer on arrival in Tel Aviv for a state visit on Monday, days after a deadly terror attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue set off a violent uptick in Israeli-Palestinian violence across...
(JTA) — A 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded an Israeli man and his son outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, police said, in one of multiple incidents over the weekend during the latest incident in an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
The...
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